Romantic Englishness investigates how narratives of localised selfhood in English Romantic writing are produced in relation to national and transnational formations. This book focuses on autobiographical texts by authors such as John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, and William Wordsworth.

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. 'These circuits, that have been made around the globe': William Cowper's Glocal Vision 2. Local and Global Geographies: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Wordsworths 3. Labouring-Class Localism: Samuel Bamford, Thomas Bewick, William Cobbett 4. John Clare: Parish and Nation 5. William Hazlitt's Englishness 6. Charles Lamb and the Exotic 7. 'The Universal Nation': England and Empire in Thomas De Quincey's 'The English Mail-Coach' Bibliography Index

David Higgins is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine (2005) and Frankenstein: Character Studies (2008). He has co-edited Studying English Literature (2010), Teaching Romanticism (2010), and Contesting Creativity, a special issue of the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2011).